Re: [PATCH pve-docs 1/2] qm: pci passthrough: replace obsolete module loading procedure

["Michael Köppl" <m.koeppl@proxmox.com>]

Quickly discussed this with Jakob off-list, as I felt that a reference
in the commit message to e.g. the Debian documentation that mentions
that the file is now obsolete would have been nice. A quick search did
not really turn up anything, though. A comment in /etc/modules notes
that it's obsolete, though, so this seems fine IMO.

Reviewed-by: Michael Köppl <m.koeppl@proxmox.com>

On Tue Aug 25, 2026 at 1:46 PM CEST, Jakob Klocker wrote:
> Loading modules by adding them to `/etc/modules` is obsolete and has
> been replaced by `/etc/modules-load.d/`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Klocker <j.klocker@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  qm-pci-passthrough.adoc | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
> index 00d9478..a188005 100644
> --- a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
> +++ b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
> @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ to the xref:sysboot_edit_kernel_cmdline[kernel commandline].
>  
>  .Kernel Modules
>  
> -You have to make sure the following modules are loaded. This can be achieved by
> -adding them to `'/etc/modules''.
> +Make sure the following modules are loaded by adding them to a file under
> +`'/etc/modules-load.d/'`, for example `'/etc/modules-load.d/vfio.conf'`:
>  
>  .Mediated devices passthrough
>  [NOTE]
> @@ -467,8 +467,8 @@ with 5th, 6th and 7th generation Intel Core Processors, as well as E3 v4, E3
>  v5 and E3 v6 Xeon Processors.
>  
>  To enable it for Intel Graphics, you have to make sure to load the module
> -'kvmgt' (for example via `/etc/modules`) and to enable it on the
> -xref:sysboot_edit_kernel_cmdline[Kernel commandline] and add the following parameter:
> +'kvmgt' (for example via `/etc/modules-load.d/`) and to enable it on the
> +xref:sysboot_edit_kernel_cmdline[kernel commandline] and add the following parameter:
>  
>  ----
>   i915.enable_gvt=1